subject: The Benefits Of Learning How To Make Soap At Home [print this page] Making homemade soap is a great alternative to purchasing commercially made soap that may not fit your needs. Making your own soap allows you to ensure your skin is healthy as you enjoy the feeling of satisfaction that comes from creating a product all your own.
Soap manufacturers rip you off by taking out the good, moisturizing ingredients, like glycerine, which means that using their soap actually makes your skin dryer and less healthy. They hope that if you use their soap, you will have to buy their other products as well to counteract the negative effects. Making your own soap is a smart decision for your household budget.
If you use a proper method for how to make soap, you can shave off the cost of buying expensive department store soaps that do the same thing. There are plenty of easy soap making projects out there and once you get the hang of it, you will probably never have to shop for soap again.
In addition to saving money, your homemade soaps can be great gifts to give to friends and family. Or you can have a soap party where you teach your friends and family how to make soap so that they can design and create their own individual soap bars. The process is not recommended to teach to children, however, because there are acids involved that could be harmful.
Soap has many processes to choose from but most of these processes have the same main ingredients: Lye, animal fat and oils. Saponification is the process in which fact and lye are joined together to create soap. Remember that lye is caustic and that you need to wear eye protection and gloves when handling it.
The ingredients for soap - oil, lye and molds to shape them - along with instruction books, can all easily be found in a craft store. And just as with any craft, a little knowledge of the basics means you can create endless variations with different shapes and oils.
It's tempting to "go organic" and buy expensive soaps in an effort to avoid harsh additives. But by making your own soap, you can protect your family members from allergens and other irritants that come from perfumes and dyes in department store soaps!
When you make soap, you are being both creative and useful. It's likely that you will find your homemade soap to be better for your skin than the soap you used to buy at the store, because you are in control of what goes in and what comes out of the soap. The opportunities for the fun and creativity know no bounds!
